Dallas, which has scored 13 goals to rank among the league
leaders, is on a three-game winning streak for the first time
since July 8-22, 2006. Dallas is 7-2-1 all-time against Real.

Alvarez scored his first goal of the season on a spectacular
play in the first half for Dallas. He deked two RSL defenders
on the left side and fired a left-to-right kick past goalkeeper
Nick Rimando for a 1-0 advantage.

"Growing up my whole life, I played forward and I like being
close to the goal," Alvarez said. "I used to be out wide and
now I'm in the left middle. I wouldn't mind playing up at the
top more."

In the 81st minute and the contest tied at 1-1, Dallas took the
lead back for good as Gbandi fired a shot from about 20 yards
that hit the top of the right post and bounced into the left
corner of the net to give Dallas a 2-1 lead. The goal was the
first for Gbandi since he scored against San Jose on July 2,
2005.

"I got the ball from Pablo (Ricchetti) and thought about
crossing it, but then I thought I never really shoot the ball,
so I just hit it and never really knew where it was going,"
Gbandi said. "Luckily, it hit the back of the net."

Real took advantage of a foul by Dallas defender Alex Yi midway
through the second half, when he grabbed the jersey of Atiba
Harris as the forward had broken away from the pack.

Freddy Adu subsequently converted a penalty kick - his first
goal of the season - past Dallas goalkeeper Dario Sala in the
69th minute, tying the game at 1-1 and marking the first goal on
a penalty kick that Sala has allowed this season.

RSL, which remains winless through seven contests, suffered its
fifth loss of the campaign.

"It's getting very frustrating," Adu said. "We're only seven
games into the season, but we can't keep saying that it's early.
We don't have time to keep starting over and trying to get
going. Right now, what we're doing is just not good enough. We
don't want to get ties - we want to get wins."

FC Dallas captain Carlos Ruiz earned a one-game suspension when
he picked up his fifth yellow card of the season in the 73rd
minute.

Dallas has defeated RSL in all five meetings at Pizza Hut Park.
The game also first time that Kreis, a former FC Dallas star,
has coached against his former team.

"I'm really disappointed in the way my team came out at the
beginning of the game," Kreis said. "Our effort in the majority
of the first half just wasn't good enough. The way (we) came
out and reacted at the beginning of the second half, I was
pleased with."